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This three-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in deploying and using VMware vRealize® Automation SaltStack® Config. SaltStack Config is a powerful software configuration management component available in VMware vRealize® Automation. With SaltStack Config you can easily define optimized, secure software states and enforce them across your entire environment, including virtualized, hybrid, or public cloud systems.

In this course, you are introduced to configuration management and how SaltStack Config can install software, maintain system configurations, change systems immediately with scalable remote execution, and automatically correct configuration problems in deployed virtual applications.

Audience

Experienced system administrators and cloud administrators

Product Alignment

VMware vRealize Automation 8.4
VMware vRealize SaltStack Config 8.4

Before taking this course, you should have completed the VMware vRealize® Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.3] course.

You should also have the following understanding or knowledge:

Good understanding of managing and working with various Linux and Windows operating systems
Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere® environments

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Use VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ to install SaltStack Config
Describe the architecture of SaltStack Config
Deploy Salt minions from VMware vRealize® Automation™
Create simple, human-readable infrastructure-as-code to provision and configure systems and software anywhere in your environment
Configure roles and permissions for users and groups to manage and interact with SaltStack Config
Manage systems with Jinja and YAML code
Automatically enforce desired states across your entire IT footprint
Keep critical software up to date
Enact change immediately across your entire enterprise with fast, scalable remote execution
Use SaltStack Config orchestration
Create and manage reactors and beacons that enable self-healing configurations

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 SaltStack Config Overview and Architecture

Describe the purpose of SaltStack Config
Define vRealize Automation and its services
Define SaltStack SecOps
SaltStack Config deployment types
Components of SaltStack Config and their roles

3 Installing SaltStack Config

SaltStack Config installation from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager
Accessing SaltStack Config console
Salt minion types
Installing Salt minion manually
Installing Salt minion using cloudConfig
Accepting minion keys

4 SaltStack Config Security

Overview of vRealize Automation roles
Directory service connections
Synchronizing with a directory service
Editing directory service connections
Deleting directory service connections
Creation and management of local users
Roles and permissions
Advanced permissions

5 Targeting Minions

Configuring minion attributes, grains, and custom grains
Creating minion target groups based on grains, globs, regular expressions, complex matching, and lists

6 Remote Execution and Job Management

Using modules, functions, and arguments
Generating documentation on available modules and functions
Creating, running, and scheduling jobs
AD HOC jobs

7 SaltStack Config States

Overview of SaltStack Config states
State files management
State modules
Testing and verifying states
Package management
SLS files
Top file
Creating initial SLS files

8 SaltStack Config Pillar Data

Pillar concepts
Pillar configuration
Using the get function
Passing inline pillar data
Managing users with SLS
Using pillars in SaltStack states

9 SaltStack Config State Requisites and Declarations

ID compared to names
State execution order
Implicit orders
Order declaration
Requisite declarations
Including other SLS files
Altering states
Using requisites and declarations to install and manage software

10 Using Jinja and YAML

SaltStack renderers
YAML SaltStack configuration file format
YAML lists, dictionaries, and block structures
Jinja basics
Using the Jinja renderer
Grains with Jinja
Jinja conditionals, lists, and loops
YAML dictionary
Jinja dictionary

11 Managing Microsoft Windows Systems

Software management
Windows features and roles
Local group policies
Patching
Windows software management
Windows features management

12 SaltStack Config Orchestration

SaltStack Config orchestration
SaltStack Config orchestration advantages
Executing orchestration
Orchestration state files
Orchestration calls
Requisites in orchestration

13 Beacons and Reactors

Beacons
Beacons configuration
Beacon state modules
SaltStack Config event bus
Reactors
Reactors configuration
Reactors state Files
Orchestration with beacons and reactors

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VMware vRealize Automation SaltStack Config: Deploy & Manage [8.4] Training in Finland

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